Inspired by populist hero Sean Hannity, real Americans from coast to coast are rallying this morning against elito-socialist Barack Obama, who showed his true colors by ordering known gay condiment, Dijon mustard during a trip to an elitist inside-the-beltway burger joint Wednesday. The move sparked a popular uprising in America’s heartland, where grassroots activists are [...]
AsstroTurf: A comprehensive primer
From Media Matters and elsewhere: In light of today’s events, Media Matters has prepared background information on Fox News’ coverage of the tea parties. Fox News has aggressively promoted the tea-party protests both on- and off-air and has repeatedly encouraged viewers to get involved. · On his April 6 program, Glenn Beck told his viewers they could “celebrate with Fox [...]
Crooks and Liars: Leser on the Tea Parties: ‘These tax day tea parties are a sham and a fraud’
On Fox News, even: Steve Leser, the Editor of OpEdNews, was on the Neil Cavuto show and made a few fairly accurate statements about the Tax Day Tea Parties that FOX News is taking an active interest in promoting — and, some might say, financing and orchestrating. FBN’s Stuart Varney is the guest host and talks out of [...]
ThinkProgress Calls Out Fox for Promoting Teabagging
In a move that is sure to get him hunted by O’Reilly’s goons, ThinkProgress editor Faiz Shakir appeared on Fox Business last night and slammed the network’s aggressive promotion of the anti-Obama tea parties. Guest host Charles Payne denied that Fox News and Fox Business were advocating in favor of the protests… Article and video at ThinkProgress.org
HuffPo: The Corporate Lobbyists Behind the Tea Parties
FDL‘s Jane Hamsher debunks the “tea party as grassroots” myth on Huffington Post: Anyone who has watched Fox News of late has seen them talking about the April 15 “tea party” demonstrations, which they take pains to characterize as a spontaneous grassroots uprising against government spending that they are simply “covering.”… Read the rest here.
Crooks and Liars: Bonfire of the Wingnutteries
Crooks and Liars sez: “Follow teh munnee” Howard Kurtz hit FOX News for their promotion of the “Tea Party” protests on CNN’s Reliable Sources. He actually says the shows are now “a full-fledged Fox fight.” The right-wingers want to know how FOX is financing this movement? It’s because they are endlessly promoting it on every show that [...]
Political Carnival: Glenn Beck backs out as San Antonio Tea Party keynote speaker
Oh noes! Notorious loon Glenn Beck will not be speaking at the San Antonio Tea Party after all. Says he’ll be a distraction. Because this is serious business, this teabagging. Thanks to Political Carnival for the heads up.
Gawker: A Very Special Book-Burning Glenn Beck Tea Party
Glenn Beck, for the uninitiated, is a Fox News personality famous for, among other things, his rapid Dobbsian descent from semi-respectable tee vee pudit to spectacularly insane hatemonger over the course of what felt like a matter of weeks. Gawker takes us inside one of Beck’s 9/12 Tea Parties (it’s a movement, people!) to see [...]
Media Matters: Fox News aggressively promotes “tea party” protests
published by Media Matters for America on April 8, 2009 Despite its repeated insistence that its coverage is “fair and balanced” and its invitation to viewers to “say ‘no’ to biased media,” Fox News has frequently aired segments encouraging viewers to get involved with “tea party” protests across the country, which the channel has described [...]
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